We've been doing this in Massachusetts for a couple of years now. It's not really that big of an inconvenience. The real problem is when we'll have to move beyond 11 digits. You thought moving from IPv4 to IPv6 would be a problem.
The lack of details suggests either 1) that they don't want you to know how it works to make it harder to crack or 2) there's vaporware in the air. Choose your conspiracy.
But I think threads are difficult to share memory _effectively_. Either you lock shared resources, or you get clever with thread safe algorithms/data structures. And that stuff gets real HARD real FAST.....
you have to realize that sharing data structures amongst processes are often times going to require using similar algorithms ( like your typical muliple writer/multiple reader ones) but with semaphores. The API might be different between using a pthread mutex and a semaphore, but where you place those p() and v() calls are essentially the same.
Advantages (Thread vs. Process):
-Much quicker to create a thread than a process.
-Much quicker to switch between threads than to switch between processes.
-Threads share data easily
Disadvantages (Thread vs. Process):
-No security between threads:
---One thread can stomp on another thread's data.
-For threads which are supported by user thread package instead of the kernel:
---If one thread blocks, all threads in task block.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss...not for me, but for others. That's fine though. If apple's end users are happy because they don't need to worry about upgradability and such then all the more power to them, but I'll stick to my x86 machines.
However, Apple's behavior towards the MacWorld expos trouble me since I live near Boston. A poorly attended or cancelled convention of this proportion hurts the local economy. That's something nobody can ignore.
well it was OSF/1 and then Digital UNIX and then Tru64, but i'm just splitting hairs;-). You're definintely right with everything else. I have to add that I disagree with the idea that Ultrix was buggy. At my school we still have a couple Ultrix machines in use and they just keep plugging along just fine.
Well that's all fine and dandy right now, but in a few years VCRs are going to be hard to find at your local electronics store. Tivos and other such devices are what you'll likely see instead.
I thought the title read "NASA Considers Abondoning IIS". Oh well.
Seriously, though, in previous adminstrations this might have been an idle threat, but, with this one, I wouldn't be surprised if it were otherwise. NASA's becoming harder and harder to fund with the current budge crunch, and Russia's not living up to its end of the deal. If anything, the Russians made a mockery of the IIS by allowing tourism on the space station. I'd rather see more money being put into replacing the space shuttles.
Has the possibility of Paramount asking you to redo Star Trek V gotten any better in recent months now that the special editions of the first 3 motion pictures have sold so well? I understand that a weak script and a small number of deleted scenes make it difficult.
uh...Most of the budget overruns and scandals surrounding the Big Dig have occurred during the tenures of the last 2 and the current Republican governors of Massachusetts...Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci, who sometimes will admit that they could barely keep a straight face when confronted about the overruns, and Jane Swift, who went bezerk and fired a couple of Mass Pike Board members who refused to raise tolls. They were eventually reinstated by the Supreme Judicial Court, but not before one of them Christy Mihos - a Republican - ponied up his own money to ensure Mitt Romney got the support for the next gubernatorial race....Good times.
My understanding is that components from Tru64 will be integrated into HPUX in future releases. This article states, "HP Tru64 UNIX, an integral part of HP's UNIX portfolio, also showed strong results in the DH Brown report, earning top marks in two of the report's five categories. As part of its ongoing plan to continue enhancing the functionality of HP-UX, HP plans to bring key features from Tru64, including its TruClusters and Advanced File System capabilities, into future releases of HP-UX11i."
Sun's giveaway of Star Office is not the same as Microsoft's giveaway of IE. With the case of IE, Microsoft bundled its browser free with Windows in a manner known as comingling (sp?), gave it a prominent placement on the desktop, and tried to prevent Netscape from being preinstalled.
While there are lots of discrepancies, TOS never claimed that vulcans weren't a spacefaring power and they didn't have diplomats everywhere...remember Ambassador Sarek in Journey to Babel? I believe the claim was that Spock was the first to join Star Fleet, not to explore space. T'Pal is not a member of Star Fleet. Vulcans were exploring space long before at least as early as when the Romulans left Vulcan. Time travel knowledge can be easily explained by the fact that such abilities can be very dangerous and thus classified.
Those silly authors of the patent application obviously haven't seen Harry Potter....What do you mean that wasn't real! What are you going to tell me next - that Jedi isn't a legitmate religion in Australia?
the second graph doesn't show a sharp decline in IIS usage...so are IIS users switching to apache, or are new sites choosing apache over IIS...or both?
It's probably true that a lot of details are being left out...nonetheless, old UNIX machines can be expensive to maintain due to proprietary hardware and service contracts.
Overall they say that mozilla would make a good substitute for IE 6 but there is no major reason to switch over
The biggest reason to switch over for me is that I simply don't trust Microsoft. That being said, I'm sure there are readers of Slashdot who would have to admit that they use IE because mozilla and Netscape have problems generating certain pages. I'm not saying that's the fault of mozilla - there are a lot of IE-centric web designers out there who swear by Frontpage.
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And not portable
You could always recompile with the help of MainWin, but the performance is horrible. This is essentially what Microsoft uses to port IE to UNIX. That's why wxWindows and Qt are very appealing to me right now.
Some colleges and universities have begun to limit bandwith usage for p2p file sharing like Kazaa; a small, but not too tiny percentage is set aside for it. That way, you can still download and share your video and music files, and if you complain to the IT department that it's too slow, they'll laugh and tell you that you shouldn't be doing that stuff anyway. In my first 3 years of college, the network went down at least 4 times a week, due largely to AG, Napster, and Kazaa. The network was saturated for about 12 hours a day. Even when our pipe was quadrupled in size, things stayed the same. When the limit was put in on p2p bandwith, the network went down only once in my last semester.
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We've been doing this in Massachusetts for a couple of years now. It's not really that big of an inconvenience. The real problem is when we'll have to move beyond 11 digits. You thought moving from IPv4 to IPv6 would be a problem.
The lack of details suggests either 1) that they don't want you to know how it works to make it harder to crack or 2) there's vaporware in the air. Choose your conspiracy.
I think you make some strong points...
....
However, when you say...
But I think threads are difficult to share memory _effectively_. Either you lock shared resources, or you get clever with thread safe algorithms/data structures. And that stuff gets real HARD real FAST.
you have to realize that sharing data structures amongst processes are often times going to require using similar algorithms ( like your typical muliple writer/multiple reader ones) but with semaphores. The API might be different between using a pthread mutex and a semaphore, but where you place those p() and v() calls are essentially the same.
a pretty good summary that i agree with
taken from http://basil.cs.uwp.edu/Cs370/notes/Threads.doc:
Advantages (Thread vs. Process):
-Much quicker to create a thread than a process.
-Much quicker to switch between threads than to switch between processes.
-Threads share data easily
Disadvantages (Thread vs. Process):
-No security between threads:
---One thread can stomp on another thread's data.
-For threads which are supported by user thread package instead of the kernel:
---If one thread blocks, all threads in task block.
Didn't they teach you to use protection, or something?
Only in Sex Education and Operating Systems I.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss...not for me, but for others. That's fine though. If apple's end users are happy because they don't need to worry about upgradability and such then all the more power to them, but I'll stick to my x86 machines.
However, Apple's behavior towards the MacWorld expos trouble me since I live near Boston. A poorly attended or cancelled convention of this proportion hurts the local economy. That's something nobody can ignore.
well it was OSF/1 and then Digital UNIX and then Tru64, but i'm just splitting hairs ;-). You're definintely right with everything else. I have to add that I disagree with the idea that Ultrix was buggy. At my school we still have a couple Ultrix machines in use and they just keep plugging along just fine.
Well that's all fine and dandy right now, but in a few years VCRs are going to be hard to find at your local electronics store. Tivos and other such devices are what you'll likely see instead.
I thought the title read "NASA Considers Abondoning IIS". Oh well.
Seriously, though, in previous adminstrations this might have been an idle threat, but, with this one, I wouldn't be surprised if it were otherwise. NASA's becoming harder and harder to fund with the current budge crunch, and Russia's not living up to its end of the deal. If anything, the Russians made a mockery of the IIS by allowing tourism on the space station. I'd rather see more money being put into replacing the space shuttles.
Has the possibility of Paramount asking you to redo Star Trek V gotten any better in recent months now that the special editions of the first 3 motion pictures have sold so well? I understand that a weak script and a small number of deleted scenes make it difficult.
How about offering free MSN 8 to various charity organizations?
What have you got against charitable organizations?
IIRC, the Next box used a magnesium alloy case. In fact...here's a slashdot article.
uh...Most of the budget overruns and scandals surrounding the Big Dig have occurred during the tenures of the last 2 and the current Republican governors of Massachusetts...Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci, who sometimes will admit that they could barely keep a straight face when confronted about the overruns, and Jane Swift, who went bezerk and fired a couple of Mass Pike Board members who refused to raise tolls. They were eventually reinstated by the Supreme Judicial Court, but not before one of them Christy Mihos - a Republican - ponied up his own money to ensure Mitt Romney got the support for the next gubernatorial race....Good times.
My understanding is that components from Tru64 will be integrated into HPUX in future releases. This article states, "HP Tru64 UNIX, an integral part of HP's UNIX portfolio, also showed strong results in the DH Brown report, earning top marks in two of the report's five categories. As part of its ongoing plan to continue enhancing the functionality of HP-UX, HP plans to bring key features from Tru64, including its TruClusters and Advanced File System capabilities, into future releases of HP-UX11i."
Sun's giveaway of Star Office is not the same as Microsoft's giveaway of IE. With the case of IE, Microsoft bundled its browser free with Windows in a manner known as comingling (sp?), gave it a prominent placement on the desktop, and tried to prevent Netscape from being preinstalled.
While there are lots of discrepancies, TOS never claimed that vulcans weren't a spacefaring power and they didn't have diplomats everywhere...remember Ambassador Sarek in Journey to Babel? I believe the claim was that Spock was the first to join Star Fleet, not to explore space. T'Pal is not a member of Star Fleet. Vulcans were exploring space long before at least as early as when the Romulans left Vulcan. Time travel knowledge can be easily explained by the fact that such abilities can be very dangerous and thus classified.
or black monolith?
Those silly authors of the patent application obviously haven't seen Harry Potter....What do you mean that wasn't real! What are you going to tell me next - that Jedi isn't a legitmate religion in Australia?
the second graph doesn't show a sharp decline in IIS usage...so are IIS users switching to apache, or are new sites choosing apache over IIS...or both?
It's probably true that a lot of details are being left out...nonetheless, old UNIX machines can be expensive to maintain due to proprietary hardware and service contracts.
"At the high point there was an e-mail to (HP CEO Carly Fiorina) every 90 seconds."
Sounds like a cron job to me hehe.
Overall they say that mozilla would make a good substitute for IE 6 but there is no major reason to switch over
The biggest reason to switch over for me is that I simply don't trust Microsoft. That being said, I'm sure there are readers of Slashdot who would have to admit that they use IE because mozilla and Netscape have problems generating certain pages. I'm not saying that's the fault of mozilla - there are a lot of IE-centric web designers out there who swear by Frontpage.
And not portable
You could always recompile with the help of MainWin, but the performance is horrible. This is essentially what Microsoft uses to port IE to UNIX. That's why wxWindows and Qt are very appealing to me right now.
The insides of the vessels bear traces of the characteristic chemical signature of cacao beans, which contain about 500 different plant compounds.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the contents of the jugs aren't chocolate, but rather some residual chemical compounds from cacao beans.
Some colleges and universities have begun to limit bandwith usage for p2p file sharing like Kazaa; a small, but not too tiny percentage is set aside for it. That way, you can still download and share your video and music files, and if you complain to the IT department that it's too slow, they'll laugh and tell you that you shouldn't be doing that stuff anyway. In my first 3 years of college, the network went down at least 4 times a week, due largely to AG, Napster, and Kazaa. The network was saturated for about 12 hours a day. Even when our pipe was quadrupled in size, things stayed the same. When the limit was put in on p2p bandwith, the network went down only once in my last semester.